Out Of Country Care

Our Out of Country Care MPD grant, Symposium on Cross-border Health Care was funded by Provincial/ Territorial Health Insurance Plans and looked at provisions in health insurance plans for out-of-province or out-of-country care (cross-border care). Cross-border care appears to be a growing issue for Canadians and Canadian health policy makers concerned, on the one hand, with excessive waiting times and with the use of public funds for costly out-of-country care. A comprehensive review of all the issues raised in cross-border health care funded by provincial/territorial health insurance, including volume and costs, is proposed. We also propose to host an interdisciplinary symposium gathering key stakeholders to determine the state of knowledge in Canada with regard to cross-border care and to identify priorities for research and knowledge translation activities in this area.

 

Ronald Labonté
Professor and Canada  Research Chair (Globalization and Health Equity)
School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa

Corinne Packer
Researcher, Globalization and Health Equity Unit, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa.

Vivien Runnels
Researcher, Globalization and Health Equity Unit, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa.

Ivy Bourgeault
Professor, Telfer School of Management and Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa; CIHR Chair in Gender, Work and Health Human Resources; Scientific Director of the pan-Ontario Population Health Improvement Research Network and the Ontario Health Human Resource Research Network.

Perry Brodkin
Barrister and solicitor.

Martha Jackman
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa.

Lorri Puil
Editor, Cochrane Hypertension Group; Therapeutics Initiative Drug Assessment Working Group; Dept. of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Jeff Blackmer, MD, MHSC, FRCPC
Vice-President, Medical Professionalism, Canadian Medical Association

Owen Adams
Vice-President, Health Policy and Research the Canadian Medical Association

Smail Djamel Lounis
†Deceased

Kira Leeb
Director, Health System Performance, Canadian Institute for Health Information

Ania Kielar
Radiologist, The Ottawa Hospital and Director of the Division of Abdominal and Pelvic Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa

Sabrina Chaudhry
MPH Student, University of Saskatchewan

 
 

Runnels, V., Labonté, R., Packer, C., Chaudhry, S., Adams, O., & Blackmer, J. (2014). Canadian physicians’ responses to cross border health care. Globalization and Health. Vol. 10 (20); e1-e7. doi:10.1186/1744-8603-10-20

Various Powerpoint Presentation of the Symposium on Cross Border Health Care, 2011 by Ron Labonte, Ivy Bourgeault, Corinne Packer and Vivien Runnels.